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Against Football

One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto

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Against Football

By: Steve Almond
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
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Summary

In Against Football Steve Almond details why, after 40 years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves. Using a synthesis of memoir, reportage, and cultural critique, Almond asks a series of provocative questions: Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia? What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhood--run, leap, throw, tackle--into a billion-dollar industry? How did a sport that causes brain damage become such an important emblem for our institutions of higher learning? There has never been a book that exposes the dark underside of America's favorite game with such searing candor.

©2014 Steve Almond (P)2015 Tantor Brain & Nervous System Physical Illness & Disease Sociology of Sports Sports

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"Almond makes a convincing case for the theory that Americans have turned to football in order to meet spiritual needs that arose as a result of industrial and social progress." ( Publishers Weekly)
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